Blues locomotive improv

[Loraine]

Sweet improv @Jonathandavid !!

[Jonathandavid]

Thanks, Loraine! Glad you liked it.

[charlie_d]

Nice and smooth and bluesy, @Jonathandavid ! Enjoyable listening to your blue locomotive 👍🎶

[Jonathandavid]

Thanks for listening, charlie_d!

[davetherigger]

Thats great.

[Jonathandavid]

Thanks, davetherigger!

[Bill_Brown]

Very nice @Jonathandavid 🤩👏👏 You and your Taylor put out some great sound👍👍 I enjoyed listening and watching you play – mostly within the lesson box😎 Thank you for taking the time to post this Em pentatonic improv – very nice🤩

[Jonathandavid]

Thanks Bill_Brown. Thank you for listening!

[stevieblues]

That’s an awesome improv Jonathandavid! 👏

[Jonathandavid]

Thanks, stevieblues! Hope you get back to posting some improvs yourself soon!

[Tom000-18]

Jonathandavid, thank you for posting this! it inspires. I challenged myself I worked on some improv on this to utilize the scale on the high and low e and then vertically as you masterfully did. Curious on your approach to the improv….is it by ear? or do you work out the melodies noodling and then sew them together? or ???? Any insights would be appreciated.

[Jonathandavid]

Thanks Tom000-18. I very often use the scales in Tony’s lessons as the backbone and also just listen to the backing track until i hear a melody in my head. It sometimes takes me half a dozen or more attempts at recording with my phone intkl i think i have one that i like enough to post ( for example, last eeek when i was trying to play the melody from Baby Elephant Walk it was a little fast gor me i must have smudged the notes about 10 times before i could play it.

[Tom000-18]

Jonathandavid, your process makes a lot of sense. I know it takes work to get it down for posting (labor of love). Listening to the backing track until a melody emerges makes a lot of sense. Developing my “ear” is a frontier for me. Your insights were very helpful. Thank You!

[Geoff_H]

Thanks for sharing your improv @Jonathandavid! Really good!

[Jonathandavid]

Thanks Geoff-h!

[Jonathandavid]

Geoff-H i mean🙂

[russjr]

Wow…impressive playing

[Jonathandavid]

Thanks Russjr!

[CamCan]

Very smooth improv, Jonathandavid. I think we go about this in a similar way, as the extra playing helps the solo come together, and listening to the backing track helps to make the outcome much more musical. You did great, bud. I’m learning from you — thanks.

[Jonathandavid]

Thanks, CamCan!

[Marty73]

👍👍👍😎

[Jonathandavid]

Thanks for listening Marty69!